“I am not buying his ‘I have changed, I blame the school board’ message,” said Warminster’s Nancy Pontius.
I was shocked that anyone would consider him a good choice, writes Centennial parent Nancy Pontius.
Pen America, which reported more than 10,000 books banned in the last school year, said in a court filing that what the parents from the Maryland school district want is “a constitutionally suspect book ban by another name.”
Downer, who recently stepped down as president of the local NAACP, reflects on her life in Bucks County, from when the Klu Klux Klan were burning crosses in Linconia where she grew up to when white conservative Pennridge parents objected to Black authors being included in curriculum.
Samira Ahmed’s latest novel could, sadly, be telling the story of any number of school districts in Bucks County and across the country.
The push for censorship in Argentina builds on the same impoverished view of literature and education that the Right has embraced in the United States.
The “Freedom to Read Act” limits book bans in public schools and libraries and shields librarians from lawsuits and criminal charges filed by folks who find library materials obscene or otherwise objectionable.
For me, like so many others, public school provided me access to a better future, writes Tabitha Dell’Angelo.
Her new book “That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America” was published in August.
The Bucks County Beacons’s reporting on Senate Bill 780 was incomplete and inaccurate, argues the head of the Bucks County Democratic Committee in an OpEd.
Education reporter Peter Greene breaks down Mahmoud v. Taylor.
“Head Start has been called one of the most successful anti-poverty programs in American history and continuing this comprehensive program is a reason for hope,” said Adam Clark, region advocacy coordinator for Pennsylvania State Education Association.
“This bill would allow you to set aside any state law, you could pollute the air as much as you want, you could pollute the water as much as you want, you could do anything essentially that you wanted that would ordinarily violate the law,” said former Secretary for PA’s Department of Environmental Protection David Hess.
Look for ruby red strawberries and tomatoes, rich leafy greens, carefully crafted coffee, artisan breads, cupcakes, cookies, granola, field-grown flowers, local honey, and more at Bucks County’s farmers market offerings.
